Devin Orgeron
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cycles of banality
"So as much as groups like ISIS may make beheading videos as sensationalistic propaganda and tools of terror, there is something almost mundane about the actual murders themselves that would seem at cross-purposes with what the murderers are trying t ... -
I really like the fact that
I really like the fact that the accompanying video is a trailer, as trailers (it seems to me) are especially adept at exploitation. ... -
time capsules
I like your time capsule idea...and the idea of a film that will be deemed exploitative at some point in the future. Gordon brings up KIDS. And, while it does hold up to some degree, it topicality exploits a moment. ... -
not-to-be-looked-at-ness
I like these questions. I was thinking about Mondo and FoD as well. And I think the LiveLeak material does work according to a similar logic. But that logic is pushed into a rather different service in these cases. There is an appeal to a kind of morbid c ... -
inversion
I think that the inherent curiosity you speak of can pull us in weird directions, And our moral/ethical relationship to it is ambiguous at best. But across these types of exploitation, I think, arises the question of audience: how to get, keep, change or ... -
speed
Smart point. I think speed plays into it. But it also has something to do with production values (for lack of a better term). There's an immediacy and frankness to much of this material that would, I think, render a packaged version of it somewhat to ...